This novel has been rendered from French into Persian by Ghasem San'avi. Jahan-e Ketab Cultural Artistic Institute has released 'Bread, Education, Freedom' in 242 pages.
 
In an impoverished and tense Athens, the corpses of three prominent personalities are found. Alongside them, a recording broadcasts this slogan once used against the dictatorship of the Colonels: “Bread, education, freedom”.
 
As the head of the crime squad in Athens, he’s called to the scene when Yerassismos Demertzis is murdered. When the police arrive on the premises, a construction site near the Olympic Games stadium, they start investigating. A phone set on the victim’s body rings and a recorded message says the slogan “Bread, education, freedom”.
 
This is the slogan used by the students who fought in the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in November 1973. This uprising was repressed by the Regime of the Colonels but the people supported the students and it eventually led to the end of the regime.
 
Who is behind these murders? A member of the extreme right? A former leftist driven by the desire for revenge? The police are not spared by the crisis either and Commissioner Kostas Charitos, deprived of his salary for three months, will have to redouble his efforts if he wants to discover the truth.
 
Petros Márkaris is a writer of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos. He wrote several plays and cooperated with leading film director Theo Angelopoulos on a number of film scripts. He translated several German dramas into Greek such as Goethe's ‘Faust I’ and ‘Faust II’, as well as Brecht's ‘Mother Courage’.